Human Geography

Matthew Bishop 9/27/19                                         Mapping the World Part 2: The United States- Blog #8 1.Washington 2.Oregon 3.California 4.Arizona 5.Nevada 6.Utah 7.Idaho 8.Montana 9.Wyoming 10.Colorado 11.New Mexico 12.Texas 13.Oklahoma 14.Kansas 15.Nebraska 16.South Dakota 17.North Dakota 18. Minnesota 19.Iowa 20.Missouri 21.Arkansas 22.Louisiana 23.Wisconsin 24.Michigan 25.Illinois 26.Indiana 27.Ohio 28.Kentucky 29.Tennessee 30.Mississippi 31.Alabama 32.Georgia 33.Florida 34.South Carolina 35.North Carolina 36.Virginia 37.West Virginia 38.Pennsylvania 39.New York 40.Vermont 41.New Hampshire 42.Maine 43.Massachusetts 44.Rhode Island 45.Connecticut 46.New Jersey 47.Deleware 48.Maryland 49.Alaska 50.Hawaii

Matthew Bishop 9/26/19                                                       Telling Time and Time Zones- Blog #7 In class today, we learned about time zones. We learned what UTC and GMT mean. UTC is Coordinated Universal Time. GMT is Greenwich Mean Time. We learned that a time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard for legal, commercial, and social purposes. We also learned that we split the degrees into 15 since there are 24 different time zones around the world. The Earth is 360 degrees all the way around and there are 24 different time zones around the world. 360 divided by 24 is 15 degrees. Every time zone around the world is 15 degrees and this helps geographers tell time.

Matthew Bishop 9/24/19                                                    The Geographic Grid- Blog #6                 Today in class we defined latitude and longitude as well as graphing the longitude and latitude of popular places around the world. Some of those places include London, Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo. We also learned that The Geographic Grid is a system of imaginary arcs drawn on the Earth's surface.

Matthew Bishop 9/18/19                                                          Interpreting Maps- Blog #5        In class today, we learned about how geographers describe where things are. We learned that they use maps to describe where things are. We also defined map scale, projection, meridian, latitude, longitude, parallel, and prime meridian. We learned that we use longitude and latitude to describe direct locations on a map. We also had to understand role of map scale as well as projection when we interpret maps.

Matthew Bishop 9/11/19                                                           Mental Mapping- Blog #4                              Today in class we learned more about mental mapping and we did a test today to show our knowledge about countries' locations. We had to use what we know mentally about where countries are and we couldn't use any other resources. We also had to write down the route we take from our house to the John Carroll school. We had to write down the roads and we had to use our mental maps to do that. We also got in to more detail about the three ways we use mental maps and how they are used in Geography.

Matthew Bishop 9/10/19                                                        Mental Mapping- Blog Post #3                            In class today we learned about mental maps and how geographers describe where things are. We also explained the three ways we used mental maps. We use them to find our way from Point A to Point B. You also use it to organize and store information for the future. We also use it as a way to make it a meaning. In class, we also discussed how mental maps are used in human geography.

Matthew Bishop 9/9/19                                        Introduction to Human Geography- Blog #2                                                      Today in class, we learned about cartography, maps, absolute and relative locations. I learned that we use relative location everyday to explain where things are while we never really use absolute location. I also realized that there are two main purposes of using a map. The first one is to use it as a communication tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features. The second purpose is to use it as a reference tool to identify an object's absolute and/or relative location. The most interesting part of class was to learn about relative location. It was interesting to know that we use relative location pretty much every day.

Matthew Bishop 9/4/19                                                     Introduction to Human Geography- Blog #1     In class today, we were trying to learn about the learn about the three different maps people use and why the all have their own individual purposes. These three maps are thematic, physical and political maps. We also learned about physical and human geography and their differences. The most interesting part of the class was definitely learning about thematic, political, and physical maps and how they are used through out the world today, but also in the past. I enjoyed this part of the class and I hope we can go more in depth in future classes.